How to capture Windows installation screens?

[GoingGalt]

Short of taking a picture with a digital camera, is there any way to capture Windows' installation screens starting at the reformatting options to actual Windows installation?

 

[corkyg]

Digicam is the only way I know to do that because nothing is installed until the process is complete. I have done it now and then - here is a sample:

 

[GoingGalt]

I was afraid of that. Thanks.

 

[KillerBee]

VM's - VirtualBox VMWare VirtualPC Xen KVM etc...

 

[corkyg]

How do you install/use VMs on a drive or system that has no OS?

 

[KillerBee]

Works for me :sneaky:

 

[corkyg]

Nice, but it does not answer the question. Looks like you have Ubuntu installed as an OS.

"Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD."

I don't see how it can be used on a cherry machine with no OS at all.

 

[KillerBee]

Here is a Ubuntu Live 8GB USB stick running VirtualBox
It captured a Windows'installation screen at the reformatting option to an actual Windows installation

You can plug it into any cherry machine and do the same

 

[corkyg]

OK - that's good to know. IOW, the OS is on a thumb drive.

 

[KillerBee]

Yes

As an added bonus you could create a ramdisk
and install the Windows VM to it

I only have 6G of real memory and was able to create a 5.8G ramdisk within Ubuntu and then using Virtualbox installed Windows7 to the ramdisk and booted it

It had slow performance due to swapping out to the USB though
but if I had 8GB or more - it would fly faster than as SSD install

 

[GoingGalt]

OK, this thread has finally caused me to start dabbling in Ubuntu. Few questions though.

vtx1300, with that version of Ubuntu, did you have to install the latest Qt package to get VM to run properly? I also seem to have an issue having my installed version of Ubuntu on the USB retaining the last session after I restart.

 

[KillerBee]

doh! ..my USB wasn't made persistent either

It is an option though - can use pendrive linux to set it up
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/what-is-persistent-linux/

for Virtualbox I used
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
and selected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ("Lucid Lynx") http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.2.12/virtualbox-3.2_3.2.12-68302~Ubuntu~lucid_i386.debAMD64

I didn't have to do any other installs - everything included
so be sure you select the right version for your setup

 

[piasabird]

Go to a site that has already taken the pictures for you.

 

[KillerBee]

OK, this thread has finally caused me to start dabbling in Ubuntu. Few questions though.

vtx1300, with that version of Ubuntu, did you have to install the latest Qt package to get VM to run properly? I also seem to have an issue having my installed version of Ubuntu on the USB retaining the last session after I restart.

Hey, Created a new persistent USB using 10.04.1 LTS and installed the VirtualBox
You are right ...noticed Ubuntu did autodownload and install some QT4 dependencies prior to doing the VirtualBox install

From the /var/log/apt/history.log:
Install: libqt4-network (4.6.2-0ubuntu5), libqt4-opengl (4.6.2-0ubuntu5), libqtcore4 (4.6.2-0ubuntu5), libqtgui4 (4.6.2-0ubuntu5), libaudio2 (1.9.2-3), libmng1 (1.0.9-1ubuntu1)